Russia's bitter path to modernity : a history of the Soviet and post-Soviet eras /
| Main Author: | Chubarov, Alexander. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Continuum,
c2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Preface 1
- Introduction 5
- Part One: The Background19
- 1. "Old Regime" Russia21
- Geopolitical Evolution of the Russian State 21
- Paradoxes of Tsarist Russia 23
- 2. Political Culture 31
- "Too Asiatic for the Europeans and too
- European for the Asians" 32
- Egalitarianism and Communalism 34
- "Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationality" 36
- Russian Contemporary Political Culture 38
- 3. Soviet Ideology 41
- Main Tenets of Classical Marxism 41
- Marxism-Leninism 44
- Marxism versus Human Nature 45
- 4. The Soviet Political System50
- Dictatorship of the Proletariat 50
- "All Power to the Soviets!" 51
- The Party of a New Type 52
- The "Party-State" 54
- The Nomenklatura 58
- 5. Soviet Nationalities61
- The "Red Federated Empire" 61
- Sorting out the "Nationalities Question" 65
- 6. Serfdom-Capitalism-Socialism72
- Russia's Early Experience with Capitalism 72
- Tsarist Industrialization 74
- The Command Economy 76
- Part Two: The Socialist Experiment81
- 7. The Beginnings of the Socialist Transformation83
- Consolidating One-Party Dictatorship 83
- Civil War and War Communism: 1918-20 84
- New Economic Policy: 1921-28 89
- 8. "Great Leap" to Socialism92
- The Rise of Stalin 92
- The Industrialization Debate: 1925-28 94
- Collectivization of Agriculture 97
- 9. Stalinism101
- Industrialization 101
- Five-Year Plans 103
- Characteristics of Stalinism 106
- 10. From World War to Cold War111
- The Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact 111
- The Great Patriotic War: 1941-45 115
- Turning the Tide 119
- Stalinism versus Fascism 122
- The Onset of the Cold War 125
- 11. Khrushchev and De-Stalinization130
- Stalin's Legacy 130
- The "Secret" Speech 133
- "Khrushchevism" 138
- 12. Brezhnev's "Mature" Socialism 143
- Advent of Brezhnev 143
- Roots of Stagnation 145
- The Soviet Decline 147
- 13. Cracks in the Soviet Monolith151
- Models of Soviet/Russian Power 151
- The Rise of Cultural and Academic Pluralism 154
- Dissidence 159
- Totalitarianism with Corporatist and Pluralist Subsystems 163
- Part Three: From Reform Socialism to Deformed Capitalism167
- 14. The Command Economy in Crisis169
- Internal and External Pressures for Economic Reform 169
- Gorbachev's Perestroika 171
- Perestroika's Economic Strategies and Their Results 174
- 15. The Collapse of the Political System179
- "Democratization" and "New Thinking" 179
- The Course of Political Reform 181
- Results of Political Reform 187
- 16. Unraveling the Unitary State190
- The Rise of Popular and Nationalist Movements 190
- Key Factors in the USSR's Collapse 194
- 17. Return to a Market Economy198
- "Shock Therapy" and Its Consequences 198
- Nomenklatura Privatization 203
- "Crony Capitalism" 205
- 18. Handicaps of Russia's Capitalist Transformation210
- The Role of National Characteristics 210
- The "Survival" Economy 214
- 19. The Yeltsin Era219
- "Democrator" 219
- Parties and Elections 224
- Yeltsin's Legacy 231
- 20. Russia in Search of an Identity237
- The Commonwealth of Independent States 237
- Post-Soviet Geopolitics 239
- Russian Federalism 243
- The Chechen Problem 246
- 21. Prospects for the New Century254
- Who Is Putin? 254
- Recentralizing the State 259
- "Deprivatizing" the State 263
- "Controlled" Democracy 269
- Notes 277
- Selected Bibliography of English-Language Sources285
- Selected Bibliography of Russian-Language Sources302
- Index 311.